"Life is a succession of lessons enforced by……" — Ernest Dimnet
"Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement."
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Ernest Dimnet
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22 Quotes by Ernest Dimnet
Ernest Dimnet has 22 quotes on this site.
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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Ideas are the roots of creation.
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have…
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Ideas are the root of creation.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when…
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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
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Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
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Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason…
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A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does…
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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
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The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the…
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More Chastisement Quotes
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one of 81 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go…
— John Owen
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Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks.
— Thomas Goodwin
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The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who…
— George Whitefield
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Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that…
— Arthur W. Pink
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For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to…
— John Flavel
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God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
— William Gurnall
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Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.
— John Bunyan
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Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods?…
— William Whately
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God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our…
— William Gurnall
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